Miranda July

  • Name: Miranda July
  • Date of Birth: February 15, 1974
  • Place of Birth: Barre, Vermont, USA
Mini-bio: Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portl...( read more)and, Oregon. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July" because she says it is the month that most facilitates her creativity.

She was born in Barre, Vermont, grew up in Berkeley, California, and later attended UC Santa Cruz. Timothy Leary was her godfather. After leaving college, she moved to Portland and took up performance art. Her performances were successful, as she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.




Filmmaker Magazine rated her number one in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004. After winning a slot in a Sundance workshop, she developed her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which opened in 2005. The film won The Caméra d'Or in The Cannes Festival 2005.




Beginning in 1996, while residing in Portland, July began a project called Joanie4Jackie which solicited short films by women, which she compiled onto video cassettes, using the theme of being a chainletter. She then sent the cassette to the participants and subscribers to the series as well as offering them for sale to those interested. The Joanie4Jackie series also screened at film festivals and DIY movie events. So far, thirteen editions have been released, the latest in 2002.

She recorded her first EP for Kill Rock Stars in 1996, entitled Margie Ruskie Stops Time, with music by The Need. After that, she released two more full-length LPs, both distributed by Kill Rock Stars, and an additional EP with IQU in 1999 on K Records.




Her short story The Boy from Lam Kien was published in 2005 by Cloverfield Press as a special-edition book with illustration by Elinor Nissley and Emma Hedditch. Another story by July, Something That Needs Nothing was published in the September 18, 2006 issue of the New Yorker magazine. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a 224 page collection of her stories to be released May 15, 2007.
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Replace this image with an actor photoMiranda July mini-bio: Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portland, Oregon. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July" because she says it is the month that most facilitates her creativity. She was born in Barre, Vermont, grew up in Berkeley, California, and later attended UC Santa Cruz. Timothy Leary was her godfather. After leaving college, she moved to Portland and took up performance art. Her performances were successful, as she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.

Filmmaker Magazine rated her number one in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004. After winning a slot in a Sundance workshop, she developed her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which opened in 2005. The film won The Caméra d'Or in The Cannes Festival 2005.

Beginning in 1996, while residing in Portland, July began a project called Joanie4Jackie which solicited short films by women, which she compiled onto video cassettes, using the theme of being a chainletter. She then sent the cassette to the participants and subscribers to the series as well as offering them for sale to those interested. The Joanie4Jackie series also screened at film festivals and DIY movie events. So far, thirteen editions have been released, the latest in 2002. She recorded her first EP for Kill Rock Stars in 1996, entitled Margie Ruskie Stops Time, with music by The Need. After that, she released two more full-length LPs, both distributed by Kill Rock Stars, and an additional EP with IQU in 1999 on K Records.

Her short story The Boy from Lam Kien was published in 2005 by Cloverfield Press as a special-edition book with illustration by Elinor Nissley and Emma Hedditch. Another story by July, Something That Needs Nothing was published in the September 18, 2006 issue of the New Yorker magazine. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a 224 page collection of her stories to be released May 15, 2007.

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  • MondoTrasho
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    Performance artist, musician, actress, filmmaker, writer... is there anything this woman doesn't do amazingly well?
    I can't praise Ms.July enough! Utterly unbelieveable.
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